Macbeth, Act Five, Scene Five
56 ¼ x 78”, oil on canvas, 2001

This picture is a mixture of Macbeth’s castle and corporate life. We buy into things we wish we hadn’t and live through our regrets. We are led by others in ways that we do not fully understand. See the chorus line of business men each telling the other what they want to hear symbolized by being led by their penises. At the end of the line is Macbeth himself being led by Lady Macbeth. At the last all the characters end by pointing to a faint star in the sky as the object of their desires.

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

To the last syllable of recorded time,

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle!

Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an Idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare